Sorry, we put industrial dye in your food

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Why is there even die in petrol?
I've no interest at all in the colour of petrol - I never sit and admire the wonderful hues it may have.

In some areas of the US, farm owners get subsidized diesel fuel to run their tractors and stuff. This fuel is only suppossed to be used by farmers to run their equipment and is sold at a steep discount and it is dyed a different color to distinguish it from regular diesel fuel. Drivers of semis and unscrupulous truck companies will sometimes try to buy/steal this cheap fuel from farmers who often have hundreds of gallons of the stuff sitting in storage tanks on their farms. There is a huge fuel smuggling business in some areas. Police check the color of the fuel in the semi gas tanks to determine if it is illegally obtained fuel. If it is dyed fuel, you go to jail.

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In some areas of the US, farm owners get subsidized diesel fuel to run their tractors and stuff. This fuel is only suppossed to be used by farmers to run their equipment and is sold at a steep discount and it is dyed a different color to distinguish it from regular diesel fuel. Drivers of semis and unscrupulous truck companies will sometimes try to buy/steal this cheap fuel from farmers who often have hundreds of gallons of the stuff sitting in storage tanks on their farms. There is a huge fuel smuggling business in some areas. Police check the color of the fuel in the semi gas tanks to determine if it is illegally obtained fuel. If it is dyed fuel, you go to jail.

Around here, construction companies, (or anybody really) are allowed to buy dyed fuel for their equipment and so on, but they are not allowed to run it in vehicles (trucks) on the road - the clear fuel costs more, as it is heavily taxed for road repairs. The interesting thing is that even if your tanks are clean of dyed fuel, they can still supposedly tell if you at one time ran it through the engine if they do a tear down and inspect certain parts of the engine.

Around here, construction companies, (or anybody really) are allowed to buy dyed fuel for their equipment and so on, but they are not allowed to run it in vehicles (trucks) on the road - the clear fuel costs more, as it is heavily taxed for road repairs. The interesting thing is that even if your tanks are clean of dyed fuel, they can still supposedly tell if you at one time ran it through the engine if they do a tear down and inspect certain parts of the engine.

First they would need a very very good reason to tear the engine apart. Then they need to prove YOU did it. They take the pistons out because you can tell by the combustion colors on the piston, rings, and soemtimes the cylinder wall what fuels have been run in it.